Events

Get Ready for an Energizing Meeting at the St Helens VCSE Forum! 

Mark your calendars for Monday, 20th OCTOBER 2025, and join us for a morning brimming with opportunity and community spirit! The day kicks off with a warm welcome and a chance to mingle over coffee from 9:30 am. Feel the anticipation as we gear up for a 10:00 am start at the welcoming Willowbrook Living Well.

The forum is the perfect stage to showcase your organisation. Bring along your pull-up banners and promotional materials to share with the community. It is an excellent opportunity to connect, collaborate, and create lasting partnerships.

Reserve Your Spot Now! Do not miss this gathering of minds and hearts. Let us come together to shape the future of St Helens!

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This will be an opportunity for you to book a stall to showcase your services at our next marketplace event. The agenda for the event will be: 

10am - 11am : Alliance update - 

11am - 2pm : Open marketplace to partners and the wider public - bring along your clients to help then find out what other support is out there in the community.

Can you deliver an activity as an interactive session (in the same room as the event) such as crafts etc ? Please get in touch to discuss how this might be resourced.

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Our next Halton Mental Health Alliance and Marketplace event has been scheduled for Wednesday 10th September, 1pm at Halton & St Helens VCA, St Maries, Lugsdale Road, Widnes, WA8 6DB.

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Get Ready for an Energizing Meeting at the St Helens VCSE Forum! 

Mark your calendars for Monday, 28th JULY 2025, and join us for a morning brimming with opportunity and community spirit! The day kicks off with a warm welcome and a chance to mingle over coffee from 9:30 am. Feel the anticipation as we gear up for a 10:00 am start at the welcoming Willowbrook Living Well.

The forum is the perfect stage to showcase your organisation. Bring along your pull-up banners and promotional materials to share with the community. It is an excellent opportunity to connect, collaborate, and create lasting partnerships.

Reserve Your Spot Now! Do not miss this gathering of minds and hearts. Let us come together to shape the future of St Helens!

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Event Highlights:

Date & Time: 18th July 2025, 12 noon.Location: Totally Wicked Stadium,  McManus Drive, St Helens, WA9 3AL

This is more than just a lunch - it’s a chance to build valuable connections and gain fresh perspectives. Reserve your spot today and be part of a community dedicated to making a difference!

We look forward to seeing you there!

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Do you have responsibility for volunteers in your role or are you looking to engage volunteers and don’t know where to start?  

Join our next Volunteer Coordinators Network online where we’ll be taking a deep dive into Volunteer Recruitment and the onboarding journey for volunteers.  Share your tips and tricks on engaging volunteers or find some answers on how you might be able to change your recruitment journey to give a better volunteer experience.

We will also be looking at the Vision for Volunteering - how we can create our own vision for our own areas and challenging some of the hard and fast rules we've put in place that might be the barriers for people to give their time.

It’s an exciting time with lots of ideas on how we can work together to raise more awareness; discover new ways to engage people in doing good and promote how much volunteering makes a big difference in the work we do.

To book a place click on the register now button.

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The conference will allow the opportunity to get together, build relationships and begin a conversation about what is working, where do we require more focus and how might we move forward together. The event and the discussions during it will form the basis for a draft agreement between the sector and the Council. The audience for the conference is VCFSE groups, VCA members and our public sector partners and colleagues with an interest in the sector and its work. 

The Day – 

The conference will be held at the DCBL Stadium and will run from 10am, arrival at 9.30 and end at 3pm.  

Programme

10-10.15 – Welcome from Halton & St Helens VCA CEO & Chief Exec Halton Borough Council

10.15-10.30– Setting the Scene – Leader/CEO of HBC

10.30 – 10.45 – Halton’s VCFSE sector – State of the Sector/ Civil Society Covenant

10.45-11.30 – Workshop 1 – SWOT Analysis – where are we now?

11.30 – Coffee

11.45 – 12.30 – Workshop 2 – What’s working well?

12.30 – 1.30 – Lunch & Networking

1.30 – 2.30 – Workshop 3 – What’s needed now/in the future?

2.30 – Next Steps & Close

This will be an important day for the future of our Halton relationship and encourage as many VCA members and local groups to attend as possible. We look forward to seeing you there

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This network will act as a collaborative platform—sharing knowledge, resources, and opportunities to make a lasting impact through sport and physical activity in our borough.

Inaugural Meeting

Date: Thursday, 10th JulyTime: Afternoon (Exact time TBC)Venue: To be confirmed (St Helens area)

This first meeting will be an opportunity to:

If your organisation supports sport, physical activity, or community wellbeing in any way, your voice is important—we would love for you to be there.

Let’s work together to grow a stronger, more active St Helens.

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The next Halton VCSE Response meeting will be on Wednesday 10th July 2025 at 9.30am. The meeting will be held at Halton & St Helens VCA, St Maries, Lugsdale Road, Widnes, WA8 6DB.  We will hear from some new friends, have plenty of time to engage and update one another on projects and  activities, as well as touching base with the local Council and NHS organisations. To book a place click on the register now button.

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Our next Halton Mental Health Alliance has been scheduled for Tuesday 8th July, 1pm at Halton & St Helens VCA, St Maries, Lugsdale Road, Widnes, WA8 6DB and will be an in person. meeting.

You need to be signed up to Terms of Reference for the Mental Health Alliance to attend - 

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